Beckman George Ethel 1976 Japan

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Missionaries:

George

E t h e l

Beokman

8 - 4 0

Kamizono -cho

Nlshinorn lya 662 ,

Japan

(of

America)

Apri l

3. 1976

Forward ing

Richc.:,^C Margayrct

Snf^vre

Rou t e - 1 -

Brodiiead ,

Wisconsin

53520

Behold, I am doing a new

th ing ;

now it spr ings

for th , do

you

not perce ive i t ? I sa iah

43:19

D e a r

O h r i s t ia n

F r i e n d s :

Spr i ng is

a lways a

t ime o f newness

-

new life i n

God s

c r e a t i o n .

Here in Japan

it i s th e

b eg in nin g o f

a

new

yea r - in schoo l s and i n

th e government . Thus t l .e re a re very bu;-:y t imes

es

thf-^ -^Id yea r draws

t o a c lo se wi th g radua t i on s , en t r ance e:


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0-S-A-K-A C-H-R-I-S-T-I-A-N

M-I-S-S-I-O-N, I-N-C.

(of

America)

Missionaries: ^ Forwarding Agents:

George Ethel êckmanj Richard Margaret Saevre

8-40

Kamizono-cn^=='^ Route 1

Nishinoralya 662, Japan Brodhead, Wisconsin 53520

June

2 ,

1976

Therefore

we

do not

lose

heart, but though our

outer

man

i s

decaying, yet

our

inner man

i s

being renewed day

by

day.

NAS\0

2

Cor. 4:l6

Dea r

hristianF r i e n d s :

On

Apri l

13th three young women began the i r s tudies In Osaka

Bible

Seminary. Miss Inonue comes from the Tanabe Church

in

Wakayama

Prefecture, Miss

Tsuruda

from

the

Kajaki Church in Kagoshima

Prefecture,

and Miss Takano from

the

Asashina

group

in

Nagano

Prefecture. Miss

Takano i s

helping in the Sunday

School

a t Koyoen unt i l summer

vacation

in Ju ly , t ak ing E t h e l s p l a ce .

^ Mrs. Miyake and daughter , Seiko, moved in to our

home in^KIshinomiya to take care of i t while

we

are gone. Mrs. Miyake

is

a member

of

the Rokko

Church and is happy to

be

there to

be able

to

attend regularly

and

to take

an

active part. We are a l l praying

for

her

husband to learn more

of

Christ and accept

Him as his saviour.

During our absence

Miss

Vivian Lemmon is teaching Ethel 's

women's

Bible

classes in

a combined

class

each Wednesday. On

May

12th, the

women honored

Ethel

and

welcomed her

with

a feas t of

Japanese

dishes

a f t e r

th e B ib le

s tudy .

l e f t

Japan on

Saturday evening

for Los Angeles,

where

we

arrived

five o'clock the same day.

We

were

met

by Harold and

Leone

Cole ^

and spent Sunday with

them

before going

on

to Wisconsin.

We

re jo iced to

see

Harold

looking

and

feeling

so

well

af ter

his

surgery. He wil l have

to

take chemo-therapy treatments every s ix

weeks un t i l

March, 1977 .

Qn M y^22nd, we were happy to

take

par t in the

Baccalaureate

and

Commencement

program of Minnesota Bible College and witness J_gpann

graduate m^^gn^cum laude, and

receive membership in Del ta Epsi lon Chi,

a

national

honor

Traterni ty

of the American Association of Bible Col

l e g e s .

The directors

of

Osaka Christian

Mission, Ind.

(of America)

held

t he i r annua l mee ting, Tuesday evening,

June

1s t a t Footv i l l e a f t e r a

sukiyaki

dinner served by Ethel, Margaf'btTând'Jenann with

the

help of

Ella

Dunbar,

Kay Roth, and Carol Demert. At, the

meeting

the directors 2-

voted to include^ênann as a third missionary of ' Osaka

Christian

Mis-

.sion.

Inc.

(of Ai erlca ) t'6

help

her

obtain

her visa

to

Japan.

Jenann's

forwarding address wi l l be

th e

same as ours as th e

Saevres wi l l

be he r

forwarding agen ts a l s o .

PRAYER

REQUESTS:

1. Vivian Lemmon and Ethe l s Bible classes in Japan.

2. Miss Takano

and the

Sunday School

a t Koyoen.

3.

.-.Jenann as

she

seeks

to raise her

support

as a

missionary

to Japan.

4. R^h^âncLIDavid Hinson on

their

wedding, June .26th.

5. A

specia l prayer

of

thanksgiving

fo r

Dick

and

Margaret Saevre

for

the wonderful help they are to us.

They

plan to v i s i t

each

of our

liv ing link churches

with

us

this

summer so as

to

be identified y

with

us

6. Mr Mrs Higakl as they

will

be studying on

their

own during our

absence. Mrs.

Higaki

plans

to be

baptized

on

June 6th,

Pentecost

Sunday. Mr.

Higaki has given

h is consent but does

not yet

see his

need fo r baptism. Pray tha t his fa i th wil l grow

to

obedience.

I n

H is l o v i ng

s e r v i c e ,

George

E t h e l

Beckman

says,

Thank you a l l for your prayers and encouragement; I

Tifihally

graduated

1 I

t rust that

prayer

will

be answered and I

will

be

able

to

return

to

Japan in September with

ray

parents

and

begin

learning

the

written

and

spoken

Japanes language

on

an

adult

level .

Pra i se

th e Lord

Aloha i n J e su s ,

Jenann


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#0aka OIl{rtsttan Mtaston

Miss iona r i e s

Gorge & Ethel Beckman

8 - 40

Kamizenocho

Nishinomiya 662,

Japan

De a r Ch r i s t i a n

F r i e nd s :

(OF

AMERICA)

(not for Profit corporation)

OSAKA

B IBLE

SEMINARY

September 4, 1976

Forwarding Agents

Richard &

Margaret Soevre

R. R. I

Brodhead, WlKont in

53520

J esu s h as promised to all

those

who

would

follow Him

that

they would receive a

hundredfold anything

they

had left to follow H im . Time

and

time

again we

have been re

minded

of this dur ing our brief stay here

this

summer, as we

have been welcomed

into

your

homes, fed

and

shared in fe llowship with you and been sent on

our

way rejoicing. To any

of you tha t

we

have not

been able to t ha nk w it h

a personal note,

we want to

express our ap

precia t ion for your

k indnesses

to u s .

This summer

has been

qui te different than many

other s ,

but

no

less

busy .

We were

ab le to vis i t three

of

our

l iv ing l ink churches ,

Beloit and Foo tv i ll e, Wisconsin

and

Rockford,

I l l inois ,

in

June

before going

to

Kansas

for

Ruth s

wedding.

I . ^ J||j|||n j I m

The

wedding

was lovely and we

were able

to

I >4 see the bride and groom one evening during their

B ^ ' I honeymoon.

They

are

now settled

in

an

apartment

jw ^ t Jl on

the

campus of

Manhattan Christian

College

I

jm 9*

p

k Ijj and have

completed

two

weeks

of

classes.

Their

I 4 ^ E

aim

after graduation is to

come

to Japan as mis-

jff

A

mm

sionaries , for which we praise the Lord and ask

M 'J Hi te His blessing upon them.

Following the wedding Jenann and w e paid

a

br ief

vis i t

to Oden and Rema Brown in

Moun ta in Grove ,

Missour i , John and Tsa i

in

St i l iwater ,

Oklahoma and Paul a nd Marc ia

Nie l sen in

Del

City ,

Ok lahoma, b ef or e going on to Denver for the North

American

Chris t ian

Convent ion , a

rare t r ea t for u s .

From Denver we r et ur ned t o Wiscons in

by

way of

South

Dakota to vis i t George s

s is

te r and brother and the famil ies of h is

two

brothers . On our way from

South

Dakota we le f t

Jenann

in

Counci l Bluffs, Iowa , where she w as to

be

the miss ionary for their

DVBS. We

a lso

v i s i t e d th e Kenn e t h

End e r s i n

Oma h a .

The l a s t

Sunday in Ju ly w e

vis i ted

ou r l iv ing

l ink

church in Waukegan,

I l l inois ,

and

the f i rs t week o f

August

found us

with

the

Traders

Point Chris t ian Church in Indianapol is ,

I n d i an a .

The highl ight

o f th e month of August was a

family

reunion of

Ethel s brothers and

s is te r s . They were

a ll able

to

be

together except one brother , Kenneth i n Ca li fo rn ia .

Two

brothers , Roy in Pennsylvania and Lloyd in Colorado

had

not

seen

each other for twenty-two

years

One more t r ip in to so uth ern I nd ia na c om ple te d

our

i t inerary

for

th e summer.

A

spe

c i a l

th an ks g oe s to

brother- in- law

Donald Nelson for the u se of h is car for

a ll

our

summer s

t r a v e l s .

Now

we

are on

our

way to the coas t on

our

return trip to Japan

with

stops along the

way

to

say

farewell

to

John and Tsai and

Ruth

and David. Mary

wil l see

us of in San

rancisco

Reports

from

Japan have

been

encouraging.

Ethel s

Bible c lass

has

b ee n well a t

tended and

ab ly taught by

Vivian Lemmon.

The

Miyakes

have_ t aken exce ll en t

car

of

our

house

and

yard .

We

are

r eturn ing wi th

g r eat an ti c ip a ti on

and

expec ta t ions .

In Chr i s t ,

George

&

Ethel Beckman

Jenann says : I thank God for the p le as u re o f attending seven Vacation

Bible

Schools ,

a Christ ian camp and the North Americ an

this

summer. I

made

new f r iends , s poke about

J ap an , ta ught

a

c la s s twice

and

led

songs a t VBS, ass is ted a team leader and was

also

a

cabin mom a t Jun io r Camp an d c ha pero ne d children a t the convent ion. I

could

wish for

severa l more

weeks of

th e

same

ac t iv i t i e s i f

I

weren t

so

anx ious

to

ge t home

to

Japan .

Thank

you for

keeping

me

in

your

thoughts

and

prayers

a ll

along

the

way .

Sincerely ,

Jenann


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Ciaaka

Cijrtsttan

Mission

3nc

Missionaxi^

George

Ethe ^el mOT^

8 - 4 0

Komizono-cho

Nishinomiyo 662, Japon

De a r Ch r i s t i a n Fr i end s :

(OF

AMERICA)

(noJ for Profit corporation)

O SA KA B IB LE S EM IN AR Y

November 8 ,

1976

Forwarding Agents

Richard

Margoret

Saevre

R. R. I

Brodhead, Wisconsin

53520

On Friday, September 17, we were met a t Osaka Airport by Mrs. Motobayashi ,

the

mother

o f Sho ji,

who had

become a

Christian while an

exchange s tuden t

a t Pryor, Oklahoma

.

We

found

every

thing well taken care of by Mr.

Mrs. Miyake during our absence,

so

i t

d idn t

take u s

long

to ge t

set t led

back in a nd re ad y to go to work.

The next

Monday

Jenann went to see about

enrolling

in l anguage school and began

c lasses that week

-

five days

a

week

from nine

until

noon.

The school is in Ashiya

City,

c lose

enough fo r her to r ide he r b icy cl e to

school .

George began teaching

four

days a week, three hours a day from Tuesday , t he 21st.

During his

spare

time

at

home

he

has trimmed

th e hedge , c leaned out the garden

and

planted

strawberries,

peas and onions for next

summer.

We miss the

brocolli,

brussel sprouts and

cauliflower we usual ly have

in

the win ter, but it

was

too late to set out

the

plants by the

t ime

we got the garden

ready.

Ethel s first class of

women met

on Wednesday, September 22. The

women

brought

food

fo r lunch to welcome her back, and one new member joined

the c lass ,

making a total

of

sixteen

in the

c lass studying the book

of

Acts together .

Since the

twenty- thi rd was a

national holiday

the English Bible

Class

did not meet

that first

Thrusday. Since

they

began three

new

members have Joined

the

class ,

each

one

brought in

turn

by

a

new

member

who

had started the

week

before,

They

are studying

the

b o o k o f H e br e w s.

Friday,

October

29

was

the date for the Kobe

Women s

Luncheon. We had an over

flow

crowd

of

nearly

530 women so

that about

150 had

to eat

in

separate

rooms

across the

hall

from

the main room a ft er th e program

was ov er.

On N ov em be r 2 and 3

w as

th e 14th an

nua l

Tanemak i Kai

a t Osaka

Bible

Sem

inary, with

a

to tal regi s tra tion

of

about

160.

(See picture

at

left) George

had

the keynote message

on

Tuesday even

ing on

the theme

My Grace Is Suffi

c i en t For

Thee .

On

Wednesday

af ter

noon the alumni p re se nte d Geo rg e,

Mart in

Clark and Ray Mings

with spe

cia l recognit ion fo r their

26 - 28

years

o f

serv ice

to

Osaka

Bible Seminary.

Mr. Mrs . Higaki a tt en ded t he meet

in g fo r the first t ime, and Mr. H igaki

was especially well

impressed

with the

mee t ing .

PRAYER REOUESTS :

1.

Mrs.

Higaki finds

great

joy in

her Christian

life

since her

baptism in

June.

Mr. Higaki

is becoming more and more receptive. We pray

his decision will

be made soon to ac

cep t

Ch r i s t .

2. The Rokko Churh

is

planning a special evangelistic meeting from Sunday, November 21

thru Tuesday, November 23,

which

is Japanese Thanksgiving Day,

with

two meetings on

tha t day.

Mark and Lynn Pratt

will

be our

evangelists.

We pray

that

some young people

may be led to come to church, and

that

Mr. Kita, a high school student who

has

been

attending regularly for over two years, will become a

Christian;

so Shoji

Motobayshi s

s i s t e r

-

Yur i .

3. We are all rejoicing

that

Jack Makishima, who lives

with

Vivian Lemon, has

become

a

Christian and is studying Acts

at

the Seminary. He is trying to

win

his

friend,

Mr.

Tak ak i to

Ch r i s t .

4.

Pray for Jenann

as

she

studies

the

language.

Also,

that

she

will receive

regular support

so that she

will

not have

to

find

a part time

job in

order to stay here and work.

5.

Some of the women

in

Ethel s classes are beginning to bel ieve . Pray

that

they may have

th e conviction to s te p o ut and

become

Christ ians.

In

Chr i s t ,

George Ethel Beckman

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